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Thursday, July 22, 2021

NATURE’S TIME MACHINE-Poem [R, 7-22-21]

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith & Life for the Years of Winter

[From my poetry journal of 6-1-21]

 


I know now why

the old men walk

so slowly

with random steps and halts

 

The years of speed

left behind so long ago

the smell of lilacs

coo of mourning doves

the sight of boing-boing

bunnies bouncing

in long grass

 

Now the past

so long neglected

is catching up

via nature’s time machine

 

Perhaps the then and the now

will come out even

if I can only walk

a little slower

 

John Robert McFarland

 

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